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pravi edited this page Jul 20, 2011 · 28 revisions

Dreamhost runs Debian GNU/Linux lenny 5.0.8. You will need to create a new domain or subdomain with Ruby on Rails enabled.

Per Dreamhost policy you are not permitted to run persistent processes on shared hosting plans. This has been verified with Dreamhost Support staff. Persistent processes are only permitted on Dreamhost PS plans.

"Firstly, we reserve the right to kill any user process on a shared server without warning or prior notification at our discretion." We don't just do this capriciously though! We do this if the process is in any way adversely affecting the smooth functioning of your shared server.

Link: Dreamhost Wiki

  • I'm going to ask them if these 3 specific processes (redis-server, resque, websocket_server) can be run (j4v4m4n)

MySQL

You need to create a new database for diaspora from dreamhost panel.

Bundler

To install Bundler, run the following:

    $ gem install bundler

Redis

To install Redis follow these steps:

    $ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.11.tar.gz
    $ tar -zxvf redis-2.2.11.tar.gz
    $ cd redis-2.2.11
    $ cd src; make PREFIX=$HOME/redis
    $ make PREFIX=$HOME/redis install
    $ RAILS_ENV=production nohup $HOME/redis/bin/redis-server  &

Follow remaining steps from main installation article. Just check the notes below for dreamhost specific quirks.

Notes

Run these commands from diapsora code directory - $HOME/

To run bundle use ~/.gems/bin/bundle

Note: sqlite3 gem won't work if you don't provide '--without development' option. Also you have to remove lines containing sqlite3 from Gemfile and Gemfile.lock.

    $ ~/.gems/bin/bundle install --path vendor/bundle_gems --without development

There is an old version of rack installed by default which conflicts with diapsora

Hack: You have to change rack version to 1.2.1 in Gemfile.lock to make it work, but then it does not work properly.

Change ca_file in config/application.yml (remember dreamhost runs debian)

Invoke all rake commands via budle exec

    $ RAILS_ENV=production ~/.gems/bin/bundle exec rake db:migrate

Passenger equivalent to restart is

    $ touch tmp/restart.txt

You have to run jammit to have the layout come properly

    $ RAILS_ENV=production ~/.gems/bin/bundle exec jammit

Starting resque

    $ RAILS_ENV=production QUEUE=* nohup ~/.gems/bin/bundle exec rake resque:work &

Starting websocket_server

    $ RAILS_ENV=production nohup ~/.gems/bin/bundle exec ruby script/websocket_server.rb &
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